The Early Modern Painter-Etcher
April 15 - June 11, 2006

In the early sixteenth century, the etching process made printmaking, long the province of trained professionals or metal smiths, available to artists already famous in other fields but novices in this medium. The exhibition highlights the distinctive relationship between etching and other media and features prints, from public and private collections, by Brueghel, Caravaggio, Rubens, and Bloemaert, who each only made one etching, and other painters. Guest Curated by Professor Michael Cole, Madeleine Viljoen, and students in the Halpern-Rogath Curatorial Seminar of the Department of the History of Art, the exhibition will travel to the Ringling Museum, Sarasota, and Smith College Museum.

Peter Paul Rubens, St. Catherine, ca. 1620–21 etching Courtesy of the New York Public Library

Jose Ribera, The Martydome of St. Bartholomew, n.d., etching, Courtesy of the New York Public Library	Federico Barocci, The Annunciation, c.1584-88, etching Courtesy of the New York Public Library

Albrecht Dürer, Landscape with Canon, 1518, etching Courtesy of the New York Public Library